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The Bard Learning Commons offers services for all Bard students.
Whether it be one-on-one tutoring, courses and workshops, learning strategies, or drop-in hours, we encourage all students and faculty to contact us to see how we can help.

Services for Students

Contact:

Isabelle Kline at [email protected] with questions about scheduling study sessions, tutoring, or workshops.

  • Tutoring
    The Bard Learning Commons offer subject-based tutoring, senior project tutoring, and in-person or online writing tutoring. Most peer tutoring offered by the Learning Commons comes in the form of daily drop-in hours. The Learning Commons employs personal tutors in writing, world languages, and other humanities subjects.
    Find a Tutor
  • Workshops
    We regularly offer writing and academic skills workshops and drop-in hours. We are here to offer support in revision strategies, time manegment, public speaking, and more. We are available for support not only for the general student population, but also for students writing moderation papers, senior projects, and personal statements.
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  • Other Services
    • Take advantage of our drop-in tutoring hours in a variety of subjects.
    • Bring your paper to a writing consultant, whether you're working on a FYSEM essay or senior project.
    • Take a course.
    • Gain confidence speaking and reading English.
    • Ask for disability support.

Resources for Students

Citation and Documentation

  • NoodleTools not only helps you generate bibliographies in MLA, APA, or Chicago style, it can also help you outline and draft your research paper. NoodleTools is accessible from the Stevenson Library home page under Databases. If you have questions about how to set up an account or how to use NoodleTools, please ask a reference librarian for help. 
  • Research and Documentation Online

Grammar

Plagiarism

To plagiarize is to “steal and pass off as one’s own the ideas, words, or writings of another.” This Webster’s Dictionary definition is quite straightforward, but it is possible for students to plagiarize inadvertently if they do not carefully distinguish between their own ideas or paper topics and those of others. The Bard faculty regards acts of plagiarism very seriously.


Listed below are guidelines to help students avoid committing plagiarism.

  • All work submitted must be the author’s. Authors should be able to trace all of their sources and defend the originality of the final argument presented in the work. When taking notes, students should record full bibliographical material pertaining to the source and should record the page reference for all notes, not just quotations.
  • All phrases, sentences, and excerpts that are not the author’s must be identified with quotation marks or indentation.
  • Footnotes, endnotes, and parenthetical documentation (called innoting) must identify the source from which the phrases, sentences, and excerpts have been taken.
  • All ideas and data that are not the author’s must also be attributed to a particular source, either in a footnote, endnote, or innote.
  • Bibliographies must list all sources used in a paper. Students who have doubts as to whether they are providing adequate documentation of their sources should seek assistance from their professor or from Academic Resources before preparing a final draft of the assignment.
The penalties for plagiarism are as follows:
  • Failure in the course in which plagiarism occurs.
  • Denial of the degree in cases involving a Senior Project.
  • Expulsion from the College for a second offense.
The  following penalties may be imposed on students who write a paper or part of a paper for another student, even if this is done during a formal tutoring session:
  • Loss of all credit for that semester and suspension for the remainder of that semester.
  • Expulsion for a second offense.
Any student accused of plagiarism or of writing for another’s use may request a hearing before the Faculty Executive Committee supplemented by two representatives of the Student Educational Policies Committee. The student must request this hearing within 24 hours after he or she has received written notification of the charge. The findings of this body are final. 

Students may not submit the same work, in whole or in part, for more than one course without first consulting with and receiving consent from all professors involved.

(From the Bard Student Handbook)

Plagiarism Self-Test

Study Skills

  • Cornell Note-Taking System
  • Purdue University "Time Management Tips for Busy College Students"
    Purdue University "Time Management Tips for Busy College Students"
  • Letting Go of Test Anxiety
  • SQ3R Reading Method

Writing

The following links have thorough and helpful information about virtually every part of the academic writing process:

20 tips for senior thesis writers.pdf
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Annandale-on-Hudson
New York 12504
845-758-7812
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